Scott Detrow
Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
Detrow joined NPR in 2015. He reported on the 2016 presidential election, then worked for two years as a congressional correspondent before shifting his focus back to the campaign trail, covering the Democratic side of the 2020 presidential campaign.
Before NPR, Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter in both Pennsylvania and California, for member stations WITF and KQED. He also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.
Detrow got his start in public radio at Fordham University's WFUV. He graduated from Fordham, and also has a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government.
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The potential impact of the new tariffs on key U.S. trading partners could be vast and bruising.
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President Trump will be at the final game in the FIFA Club World Cup, taking place Sunday. Paul Tenorio of The Athletic talks about this moment in the culture and business of soccer in America.
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Jon Wolfsthal on the rationale behind the U.K.-France nuclear sharing agreement, how it reflects a changed geopolitical reality and what the implications are for American security in the new nuclear age.
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Covering the spectacle and complexity of the Sean Combs trial required both modern and old-school reporting techniques.
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The Atlantic Writer Charlie Warzel on his new reporting about Elon Musk, Grok and why a chatbot called for a new Holocaust.
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A new book reveals the tensions between Vice President Harris and President Biden — and how it led to Democratic failure in 2024.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Tyler Kepner of the New York Times about the life and legacy of baseball writer Scott Miller.
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In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, international correspondent Anthony Kuhn talks about how he covers North Korea without being able to report from there, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.
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The romance genre continues to grow rapidly, as readers flock to fantasy and dark romance love stories.
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Senate Republican leaders are still negotiating details of their massive tax and spending bill and moving toward a final vote sometime on Monday.